“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment.... Very briefly now, for this will be a short session. In your terms of history, man appeared in several different stages, or ages is a better word. Not from an animal ancestor in the way generally supposed. There were men-animals, but they were not your stock. They did not lead to anything. They were species in their own right.

There were animal-men. The terms are for your convenience. In some species the animallike tendencies predominated, in others the manlike tendencies predominated. Some were more like men, some more like animals.

The brain capacities of your particular species were always the same. Give us a moment.... (Long pause.) Many of the man-animal groups had their own communities. They might seem limited to you, yet they combined animal and human characteristics beautifully, and they used tools quite well. In a manner of speaking they had the earth to themselves for many centuries, in that modern man did not compete with them.

Both the men-animals and the animal-men were born with stronger instincts. They did not need long periods of protection as infants, but in an animal fashion were physically more agile at younger ages than, say, the human infant.

Give us a moment.... There were then also animal-man and man-animal civilizations of their kinds, and there were complete civilizations of modern man, existing before the ages now given for, say, the birth of writing. (3100 BC.)